Call for Papers / Gairm ar Pháipéir

Call for Papers / Gairm ar Pháipéir

We are pleased to announce that the third Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium will take place at NUIG in November 16th-17th 2018. The previous two Celtic Sociolinguistics symposia have attracted a diversity of scholars working in various areas related to linguistic and sociocultural aspects of one (or more) of the six Celtic languages. This year we look forward to welcoming a similar diversity of scholarship under the theme of ‘Communities in Conversation,’ a theme which seeks to facilitate further collaboration between academics and the many different social actors working towards the maintenance of one (or more) of the Celtic languages within the community.

We welcome abstracts of no more than 250 words, which should be submitted via our GoogleForm. We encourage you to think critically about how your work can be of benefit to community language maintenance efforts and further encourage you to include a sentence or two about this in your abstract. We hope for this conference to be a valuable opportunity for discussing potential and ongoing language maintenance efforts and the connections (or challenges to establishing such connections) between academics and community initiatives.

Abstracts will be accepted in English or any of the Celtic languages. (Note: if abstracts are written in the one of the Celtic languages, we will also ask for an English version). Similarly, presentations can be made in any of the Celtic languages; however, note that there will be no translation services available for any of the languages.